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Saturday, October 15, 2016
15 October - Pale Moon Start Page - Tech News
Levchin’s Affirm secures $100M credit line from Morgan Stanley
This morning, fintech startup Affirm announced a new $100 million
credit line from Morgan Stanley. The money will go directly to
supporting the company’s current financial products that help customers
purchase goods and spread their expenses over a period of time. Morgan
Stanley is not the first in...
A test flight with Zipline, makers of humanitarian delivery drones
A maker of delivery drones called Zipline began nationwide delivery of
blood and other critical medical supplies in Rwanda today, through a
partnership with the Rwandan government. The program strikes a hopeful
note about drones, following news earlier this week that ISIS fighters
had packed a hobb...
Crunch Report | Soylent Bars Are Getting RecalledHyperloop One raises $50 million from DP World Group of Dubai, Soylent
Bars are being recalled, Silicon Valley elites donate to controversial
Prop Q, Periscope Producer brings us professional live video and a new
Rogue One trailer has been released. All this on Crunch Report. Read
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The AI disruption wave
Information technology evolves through disruption waves. First the
computer, then the web and eventually social networks and smartphones
all had the power to revolutionize how people live and how businesses
operate. They destroyed companies that weren’t able to adapt, while
creating new winners in ...
The Mr Jones Colour Venn tells the time in CMY but not K
As a dedicated lover of cyan, magenta, and yellow I welcome Mr. Jones’
addition to the color – or colour – canon. The Colour Venn uses
overlapping translucent circles of yellow, red, and blue to display the
time. It has an automatic movement, steel case, and leather strap. Mr
Jones makes mostly fas...
A baseball wearable designed to prevent pitching injuries
Tommy John surgeries have seen a marked rise across just about every
level of baseball over the past several years. The procedure, which
rebuilds a pitcher’s torn ulnar collateral ligament, has been performed
on around a quarter of active major league pitchers according to numbers
released last sea...
AWS gets richer with VMware partnership
VMware signed deals with Microsoft, Google and IBM earlier this year
as it has shifted firmly to a hybrid cloud strategy, but it was the deal
it signed with AWS this week that has had everybody talking. The cloud
infrastructure market breaks down to AWS with around a third of the
market — and every...
A new content distribution paradigm for VR and 360 video
Virtual reality and the 360 video industry are faced with the chicken
and egg problem of content and distribution. The problem is that we
haven’t cracked the egg, nor has the chicken hatched. To get to that
point, we must look through the consumer’s lens. Read More
U.S. Department of Transportation bans Galaxy Note 7 from all flights
In the latest instalment of Samsung’s ongoing Note 7 saga, the U.S.
Department of Transportation has issued an official, blanket ban against
bringing the Galaxy Note 7 on airplanes. The ban applies to all Note 7
devices, and covers both carry-on and checked baggage, as well as
prohibiting anyone fr...
Flexible e-paper display is full color but less than a micrometer thick
Reflective displays like those found on e-readers are great for
black-and-white text, but color has yet to make a compelling play on
them. That may change with the serendipitous discovery of a full-color
e-paper material that’s also flexible and power-efficient. Read More
Crunch Report | Galaxy Note 7 banned from all flights
Salesforce walks away from a Twitter acquisition, SoftBank and Saudi
Arabia public investment fund have formed a $100 billion fund,
Zuckerberg is in search of someone to voice his AI, changes at Spotify
are hinting of an upcoming IPO and Glaxy Note 7s are now banned from all
flights by the Departmen...
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